Plugin Review – Spam Free WordPress

A friend of mine directed me to a new spam fighting plugin via a retweet today.

I’m always on the lookout for cool new software, and as I highly respect my friend’s opinion, I had to take a look.  Two things about the plugin download page immediately raised some red flags, so I wrote the plugin off and said so on Twitter.  The immediate response: that I was too quick to judge.

So here’s my full review of the plugin. [Continue reading]

Ludicrous Speed: WordPress Caching with Redis

On any given request, the cache returns in 3-10ms.

When I first started hosting my own sites, I had no idea what caching was or why it was important.  Then I wrote a couple of popular blog posts, and my server crashed. Fast forward a few years, and I'm running a few different websites on a few … [Continue reading]

The Hackiest Hack that Ever Was Hacked

I was first introduced to Plupload when I was building websites in .Net.  I had some great HTML5 file upload tools that worked wonders in my browser of choice, but most of my colleagues (and about 80% of our clients) were using a browser that … [Continue reading]

Reader is Dead! Long Live Reader!

Google Reader will be discontinued on July 1st.

Chances are good you've heard the news about Google Reader.  If you haven't, allow me to be the first to offer my condolences. On July 1, 2013, Google Reader will be gone: Google discontinuing their less popular services isn't a new … [Continue reading]

Podcast

We should ask God each and every day to test us and show whether or not we are still following the path he laid out before us. … [Continue reading]

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